WASHINGTON: India’s journey in developing a "world-class digital public infrastructure" highlights the lesson for other countries that are embarking on their own digital transformation, International Monetary Fund has said in a working paper. The working paper ‘Stacking up the Benefits Lessons from India’s Digital Journey" said that India’s stack’s development is guided by a foundational building blocks approach, and a focus on supporting innovation across the ecosystem. The building block approach involves unbundling the components of the solution to a set of problems and identifying a minimal common core. According to the paper, for a diverse country like India, a building block approach provides those closer to the problem with the basic tools to create tailored solutions. A focus on supporting a vibrant ecosystem implies the need for interoperability between the different digital public infrastructure (DPIs) and a competition-focused design. In India, interoperability was supported through open standards, allowing anyone to utilize the functionality provided by India Stack. "These principles are applied to other DPIs in education and health, including the Covid-19 vaccine and distribution platform, CoWIN," the paper read. "Using a digital backbone allowed India to scale its vaccine delivery quickly and overcome challenges such as large-scale internal […]
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